Official Nintendo Mag gives Galaxy 97%

Issue 23 of the Official Nintendo Magazine UK hits shelves tomorrow with the first English-written review of Miyamoto's platform stunner, and the big, fat 97 percent slapped on it means they like it quite a bit.

"It's funny because the thing that annoys us most is that its fantastic graphics show us the sort of games we could have been playing for the past year had some developers bothered to pull their finger out," reviewer Chris Scullion says, in praise of the lush visuals we've been shouting about for months.

Yeah, it's an irrefutable fact that everyone HAS to stand up in order to play Twilight Princess, Metroid Prime 3, Red Steel [insert the countless other games that use the aforementioned gameplay mechanic here]... The only Wii games I have had to stand up for are Wii Sports and WarioWare (and even then you can bowl, serve and bat quite successfully whilst sat down and playing the former). Galaxy's gameplay largely consists of pointing with the Wii remote and navigating with the nunchuck's analogue stick – if you need to stand up to do this, I suggest you seek medical help.

Is a terrible publication that strives to award first-party games percentages in the neighbourhood of ninety simply to appease the fat-cats who fund them and consequently secretes a toxic level of rival-bashing usurped by five-year-olds across the internet. Having read about their verdict, I'm no less excited about the game itself: just sceptical about the honesty of Official Nintendo Magazine's review.

I think it slightly unfair that my excitement regarding Galaxy isn't deemed credible just because I [harshly, admittedly] bashed Nintendo's official magazine. Rest assured, being an early Wii adopter I'm elated by the idea of an amazing Nintendo game.

Sadly it's not really in my nature to make posts on these news pages simply to express how "OMFG I can't wait for Galaxy" – I like to think there is usually a less personal, more relevant point to make. Forgive me, then, if the excitement I expressed seemed like it was shoe-horned in to cover my back (It wasn't) – I just use less exclamation marks than most genuinely excited people would when I assert my viewpoint.

One thing is for sure, the N64 gave us some games that may forever exist in gaming lore just by the amount of time they were the best of their genre before someone finally overcame it with a better game.

If this is indeed better than Mario 64 (but let's not get our hopes up about that, yet), Mario 64 will be first of the great giants of video games to fall.

I supose we'll them have hope of an adventure game being better than Ocerina of Time, or a FPS surpassing Goldeneye.